December 2017 Income and Outlays
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on February 5th, 2018Personal income and spending each improved to end 2017, but their rates of change were different. Americans’ pay managed to grow just 0.3 percent while outlays increased 0.5 percent. Additionally, there was a key revision to the prior period’s tally as outlays actually increased 0.8 percent (originally 0.6 percent), but November’s income tally remained as initially